Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. Ed. by Y.A.Petrosyan, I.Ye.Petrosyan, E.A.Rezvan, E.N.Tyomkin, M.I.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Vol. 5, No 4, December 1999.
TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 3
J. Musaelian. On the First Kurdish Edition of the ‘Sharaf-nāma’ by Mullā (Melā) Mahmūd Bāyazīdī — 3
M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali: I. The ‘Vinaya’
of the Sarvāstivādins (part 3) — 7
M. Hasani. A Unique Manuscript of the Medieval Medical Treatise al-Iktifā ' by Abū-l-Mutrib ' Abd al-Rahmān 20
Du Weisheng. The Ancient ‘Fengkui’ (Stitched) Books from Dunhuang — 25
TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 33
I. Petrosyan. Pre-Islamic Turkic Tradition in the Writings of the Early Ottoman Historiographers — 33
PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS — 36
M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Sanskrit Manuscripts from the N. F. Petrovsky Collection in the St Petersburg
Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 36
MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION — 40
N. Brovenko. On Changing the Means of the Berezovsky Collection Storing — 40
ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES — 47
H. Kaileh. A Feasibility Study for the Digitalisation of Arabic Manuscript Collections in Jerusalem — 47
PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 58
O. Akimushkin. A Copy of the ‘Early Dīwān’ by Jāmī in the Collection of the St Petersburg Branch
of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 58
BOOK REVIEWS — 66
Manuscripta Orientalia in 1999, vol. 5, Nos. I—4 (list of contributions) — 71
The 3rd International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of B.Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884–1931) will take place at the IOM RAS on April 22–24. The conference program is now available.